What have you been doing today?
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Oh yeah, yesterday I was looking on the NatWest website and the spelling and grammar were both terrible. I’m no expert, far from it, but I had to send an email to the CEO asking her if she thought that the 12 year old work experience person they let write the script should be given extra spelling lessons. I got an email back today saying:
“Thank you for your email sent yesterday to Alison Rose, our CEO. Alison has asked me to respond on her behalf. I’m sorry to learn of the poor spelling and grammar on one of our website pages. It’s unacceptable that we had to rely on one of our customers to spot these mistakes. It goes without saying we have high professional standards, which this falls far short of. I’ve raised this with the relevant team and we’ll fix this as soon as possible.Thank you again for bringing this to our attention".
My wife thinks I’m turning into Victor Meldrew and said I have too much time on my hands.
I fear she may not be far wrong!
“Thank you for your email sent yesterday to Alison Rose, our CEO. Alison has asked me to respond on her behalf. I’m sorry to learn of the poor spelling and grammar on one of our website pages. It’s unacceptable that we had to rely on one of our customers to spot these mistakes. It goes without saying we have high professional standards, which this falls far short of. I’ve raised this with the relevant team and we’ll fix this as soon as possible.Thank you again for bringing this to our attention".
My wife thinks I’m turning into Victor Meldrew and said I have too much time on my hands.
I fear she may not be far wrong!
Oh yeah, yesterday I was looking on the NatWest website and the spelling and grammar were both terrible. I’m no expert, far from it, but I had to send an email to the CEO asking her if she thought that the 12 year old work experience person they let write the script should be given extra spelling lessons. I got an email back today saying:
“Thank you for your email sent yesterday to Alison Rose, our CEO. Alison has asked me to respond on her behalf. I’m sorry to learn of the poor spelling and grammar on one of our website pages. It’s unacceptable that we had to rely on one of our customers to spot these mistakes. It goes without saying we have high professional standards, which this falls far short of. I’ve raised this with the relevant team and we’ll fix this as soon as possible.Thank you again for bringing this to our attention".
My wife thinks I’m turning into Victor Meldrew and said I have too much time on my hands.
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news...il&utm_term=0_6c9c2fcf0b-5488e77fd4-244228669
THE ability to spot a minor grammar error is proof that you are amazing, it has been confirmed.
Researchers at the Institute for Studies found that people who loudly exclaim about apostrophes and ‘who versus whom’ are actually better than everyone else.
Professor Henry Brubaker said: “In no way are any of these people vain, arsey pedants.
“Grammar perfectionists are both intellectually and morally superior to other types of human.
“The way they selflessly dedicate themselves to correct punctuation, for example by pointing out to the staff of a chip shop why the term ‘chip’s’ is a sloppy obfuscation, confirms they are bold and righteous individuals.
“If grammar people just learned to let things go sometimes, where would we be as a civilisation? Just fighting in mud, probably.”
56-year-old Roy Hobbs said: “Heaven forbid that my scrupulous attention to linguistic detail should be driven by intellectual vanity.
“The reason I loudly vocalise my frustration about a writer confusing ‘that’ and which’ is because of my passion for good English.
“It’s not that I want a crowded room to know how clever I am.”
43-year-old pedant Mary Fisher said: “So we are ‘generally better’? Better than whom? Better is a relative term.
“But perhaps you didn’t know that.”
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sodthisforfun
Lol. They've correcting the main spelling errors at the beginning that got me looking further (one that actually said "Once your ready.." and another that said "Enter you're personal details" ) but there’s still a few more errors (I think) with misuse of comma's etc. (I can remember being taught that you don’t use 'and' after a comma). I could be wrong though! Just thought it was bloody obvious and bad for a bank to have mistakes like that on their website. What do you think - can you see any? https://personal.natwest.com/personal/banking-with-natwest/register-for-online-banking.html
You can use 'and' after a comma in certain situations, such as to distinguish one piece of information is separate from another. It's known as the Oxford comma.
Bit busy at the moment but I will try and think of a scenario when you would use it.
Bit busy at the moment but I will try and think of a scenario when you would use it.
Possibly but it doesn’t look right to me.
"Now you need to choose a password and PIN and commit them to memory. The PIN should be four digits long and your password can be between six and twenty characters, and contain both letters and numbers"
It looks like they don’t believe in using full stops at the end of a sentence either.
"Now you need to choose a password and PIN and commit them to memory. The PIN should be four digits long and your password can be between six and twenty characters, and contain both letters and numbers"
It looks like they don’t believe in using full stops at the end of a sentence either.
I wonder if transam works there.
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Just spent 90 mins standing outside Boots to collect my prescription, all very calm and good humour in the queue, came home and went for a bike ride
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Few CP12s then my daily ration of exercise on my bicycle.....Only tooted at once by a car driver...Do not think he was giving me the come on!
Been over the allotment with my wife today for a couple of hours. Took some more seedlings over there to put in the poly tunnel - early and late leeks. Dug up all my raspberry canes, was going to bin them but I changed my mind and saved three of them. I put them in a patch of ground right out of the way at the back of the plot. Pruned them hard and I’ll just see how they go. Got home and noticed a few messages from my mum, in isolation, who tells me her dog has been sick this afternoon and can I take it up the vets? No I ****ing can’t - give it a day and see how it goes.
You must be incredibly bored mate. I can only imagine the pain and suffering trying to free manifold bolts.
